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Slavery by Another Name
Directed by Sam Pollard This PBS documentary, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by the same name by Douglas A.… READ MORE
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Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Directed by Julia Marchesi Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents a vital new four-hour documentary series on Reconstruction: America After the… READ MORE
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Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly, 2016 This book documents and highlights the work of Black women who worked as mathematicians at NACA… READ MORE
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis, 2003 Even though a book on the sociology of prisons, it touches on the history of prisons… READ MORE
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